[Full-disclosure] Plaxo?

Todd Towles toddtowles at brookshires.com
Wed Aug 10 14:53:54 BST 2005


> One small problem that may not have been noticed with Plaxo. 
> If the Plaxo using person decides to do so,  you can be a 
> non-Plaxo using person on that externally managed address 
> book with full email address also in there, added by the 
> Plaxo user. I have received "I have updated my Plaxo" for 
> whatever was updated, by several customers, at my help line 
> email address and have checked it out when at their premises. 
> Sure enough, there is my email address externally managed.
> 
> So, whether you allow Plaxo or not, if some user outside of 
> your company has all your email addresses within your company 
> on their computer, it has also likely been added to Plaxo by 
> them whether you like it or not.

Of course this would lead to increased spam and viruses at your mail
server, due to the spreading of e-mail addresses to computers that are
managed by people that aren't exactly security focused. Like I need
more...your computer is infected with a virus...junk mail.

-Todd



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